According to a report in the Australian Financial Review, Google is in negotiations for the rights to the Australian V8 Supercars racing series. Before we get too excited about Google TV and its potential availability here, the rights the company is reportedly interested in are to screen the V8 Supercars series internationally and online. So, …

The line between a computer and a smartphone has blurred to the point of being indistinguishable over the past year or so, and not just from a technical perspective. The way we think of phones and the way we use them is more and more PC-like all the time. People create work documents on phones, capture one-time moments as photographs …

It’s hard enough for most of us to think of the world prior to the internet, but try to imagine a world prior to the landline phone. That was the world that existed before today in 1876 before Alexander Graham Bell began chipping away at the tyranny of distance. Today also marks the height of the dotcom boom, and on …

Now playing: Watch this: Tech Time Machine: 11 March 1:07 Antibiotics, the World Trade Center in New York City, Rupert Murdoch, Bobby McFerrin and an earthquake all walk into a bar, and the bar is called “11 March”. Other notable events on this big day in history are the terrorist attacks on the Madrid train system in 2004, the ascension …

Road Inc. has been out since last year and has generally received very good reviews from publications and users. It basically turns your iPad into a digital coffee table book or, as the company puts it, “Road Inc. is a fully interactive anthology of cars that marries the cutting edge of digital technology to traditional publishing craftsmanship.” There’s no game …

Yesterday S2 owners were delighted by news from Samsung that the Galaxy S2 would be getting its Ice Cream Sandwich update on Saturday 10 March. But now it looks as though the Korean tech giant has gone back on its word, claiming that the original post was wrong and leaving S2 owners in the dark. A post on Samsung’s official …

Subsidies, which allow the iPhone 4S or Galaxy S II to sell for $200, are actually hurting the industry and artificially devaluing the sophisticated hardware that’s out in the market. Cole Brodman, T-Mobile CMO, at Mobilize 2011. James Martin/CNET That’s the read from T-Mobile USA Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman, who spoke yesterday at an event hosted by Geekwire. It’s …

Of all the announcements from Mobile World Congress last month, one smartphone that really has Android fans talking is the HTC One X. That’s why we got excited this week when details surfaced that a quad-core variant could touch down on U.S. soil in the near future. Documents found on the FCC’s Web site indicate that the bigger, badder edition …

These days, you can’t get much for 20 bucks. The pair of jeans I bought yesterday cost more than that, and I’m pretty sure the ol’ Jackson barely gives me enough gas to drive to my aunt’s house, who lives two blocks away from me. For $20, however, you can get a hold of Sprint’s newest 3G smartphone, the ZTE …

If you want to protect your Android device from pilfering your pocket in a bout of Bender-esque criminality, you’ll want to tighten up your handset’s security. But nearly six in 10 malware protection apps for Android are, if one may employ the French vernacular, mal at detecting threats. With over 450,000 apps now available on Google Play (aka Android Market), …

Everyone is talking about Sony’s hot, new Xperia S smartphone. That’s because this Android handset not only pushes the design envelope with a wildly styled exterior, it also boasts an HD screen and 12-megapixel camera. Though the Xperia S is only available in Europe at the moment, our CNET colleagues in the U.K. were able to scoop one up and …

Sprint Nextel wants to be the king of the hill when it comes to providing a cellular connection to any device, whether it is a heart monitor or a dog collar. Sprint plans to do this not just by offering a wireless connection, but also through a broad offering of advice, maintenance, and other services–supplied by both Sprint and a …

Good news for owners of the HTC Sensation and HTC Sensation XE — it looks like those smart phones are beginning to see updates to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich rolling out. HTC confirmed to Engadget that the update, which also brings HTC Sense 3.6, has appeared in Nordic countries, while Recombu notes that German site HTCinside.de has seen the update appearing …

There comes a point in every corporation’s life when it’s time to usher on steadfast loyalists into the brave new world of next-generation products. For Microsoft and Windows Mobile, that time is now. On May 9, Microsoft will be closing down, boarding up, and never looking back on its Windows Marketplace for Mobile, an app store it launched in 2009 …

Want to make your DVD library more travel-friendly? Rip those movies and load ’em up on your iPad. It sure beats paying iTunes for stuff you already own. Speaking of paying, there’s no need to spend money on a DVD ripper, either. For a limited time, you can get uRexsoft iPad DVD Ripper (Win) free of charge. It supports not …